sluggardie
Middle English
Alternative forms
- slogardye
Noun
sluggardie
- the state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, OCLC 827099568:
- Withoute Slep of sluggardie
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- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Seconde Nonnes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
- Ydelnesse is roten slogardye.
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Further reading
- “sluggardie” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.